When a star is born or dies, or when any other very energetic phenomenon occurs in the universe, it emits X-rays, which are high-energy light particles that aren’t visible to the naked eye. These X-rays are the same kind that doctors use to take pictures of broken bones inside the body. But instead of looking […]
The old Republican Party is dead. And no state is more responsible for ushering it to its grave than Florida. From Florida man Donald Trump’s presidential nomination comeback to Sen. Rick Scott’s just-announced dark horse bid for Senate GOP leader, Florida politicians are leading the charge to completely rid the GOP of its pre-Trump vestiges […]
The Euclid space telescope has released five new views of the cosmos that show an array of celestial objects in unprecedented detail. Euclid has been dubbed a “dark universe” detective because its primary mission is to investigate the universe’s two most mysterious elements: dark energy and dark matter, often collectively described as the “dark universe.” […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) will release five new images from the Euclid space telescope on Thursday (May 23). And, well, if the previous set of pictures is anything to go by — space fans should be in for an absolute treat. “Five new portraits of our cosmos were captured during Euclid’s early observations phase, […]
For over a century, Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been key to understanding gravity. But new research suggests this theory “glitches” in the farthest reaches of space. That doesn’t mean we’re throwing Einstein’s theory out the window. But it may need a slight tweak. Over the last 100 years, countless studies have proven that […]
Three alien stars circling the Milky Way could be some of the oldest ever found in the universe, a new study reveals. The ancient celestial objects may have been among the first to form after the Big Bang and were likely stolen by our galaxy during gravitational tugs-of-war billions of years ago. In the study, […]
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect the most distant pair of colliding black holes in the known universe. The cosmic monsters — each estimated to be as massive as 50 million suns — have been detected more than 13 billion light-years away, at a time just 740 million years after […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. These two gigantic black holes and their galaxies consolidated just 740 million years after the universe-forming Big Bang. It’s the most distant detection ever made of merging black holes, scientists reported Thursday. One black hole is 50 […]
A strange “cosmic glitch” in gravity could explain the universe’s weird behavior on the largest scales, researchers suggest. First formulated by Albert Einstein in 1915, the theory of general relativity remains our best and most accurate understanding of how gravity works on medium to large scales. Yet, zoom out even farther to view enormous groups […]
Scientists are relatively certain that the observable universe is relatively flat, but in terms of the cosmos’s global topography, uncertainty reigns. A new study from an international scientific collaboration discovered that Cosmic Microwave Background data didn’t rule out some exotic topological shapes, including a shape known as 3-torus. While 3-torus—and its included extensions—are relatively simple […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. What appears to be a ghostly hand reaching across the universe toward a defenseless spiral galaxy in a new telescope image is a rarely seen cosmic phenomenon, according to astronomers. The Dark Energy Camera captured […]
Einstein 2.0 Researchers have discovered what they’re calling a “cosmic glitch” in gravity, which could potentially help explain the universe’s strange behavior on a cosmic scale. As detailed in a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, the team from the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia in Canada posit […]